[sandworm101]

>> To solve this kind of attack, either allowing open firmware or new legislation is the only to stop this.

Or just randomize every MAC at the client level, blinding everyone up the chain and no doubt causing many false reports as randomized macs collide.

[jessenaser]

Yes this helps the MAC concern, but this means we need wide scale device manufactures to enable this by default, because users won't. Similar level of consensus.

Also why is some devices don't support this randomization, or even if they do, the first connection is not supported. When you first activate an iPhone or use a Windows computer, it still does not expose all the settings to randomize the MAC address until you setup the device, so the first connection exposes the actual address to the network. Yet again we need deeper levels of change to fix this.